Belt-fastener



(No Model.) v G. H. "AVERY. BELT PASTE NEE.

No. 487,691. Patented Dec.. 6, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE I-I. AVERY, OF EASTHAMPTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE STANDARD WHIP COMPANY, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BELT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,691, dated December 6, 1892. Application filed May 9,1892- Serial No. 432,328. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

l 3e it known that I, GEORGE H. AVER'Y, a citizen of the United States, residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Unitmg the Ends of Round Leather Bands, of which the following is a specification.

Th1s invention relates to band-uniting devices, and particularly to improved means for unlting the ends of round leather bands; and the invention consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of said enduniting devices, all as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a side view of portions of around leather band hav- 1ng 1ts ends united by a device embodying my lmprovements, the joined ends of the band and the uniting device being shown partly in section; and Fig. 2 illustrates in perspective views two ends of a band and detail parts of end-uniting devices hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, 3 3 indicate the ends of round leather bands.

5 5 indicate two clam ping-shells, each being perforated to allow of passing pins therethrough. 7 7 indicate said pins, and 9 indicates a double hook. This hook 9 is formed of apiece of wire or the like bent at its ends at right angles to form arms, as clearlyshown, WhICll arms are passed through the respective ends of the band and clinched or bent over, as seen in Fig. 1 in full lines and in Fig. 2 in dotted lines. The said clampingshells 5 are made of suitable sheet metal, preferably of brass or steel, and each is perforated, as shown, to receive therethrough two of said pins 7 7. Said shells are also each made semicircular in cross-section, whereby they are conformed to the rounded surface of said band. Said pins 5 are made from steel or brass wire and are passed through the said shells and band ends, and are there secured by riveting their extremities against the outer surfaces of the two shells, as shown in Fig. l, or soldering or screwing them to said shells. The arrangement of said hook 9, as shown in Fig. 1, is preferable for the reason that the hooked ends thereof engage with the band beyond the riveted pins 7, thereby bringing the said pins within the curved ends of said hooks. Moreover, the arrangement of the pins 7 at right angles to the arms of the hook 9 increases the strength of the fastening to a marked degree, as will be readily understood, since the strain-sustaining surface of the fastening is doubled. If the pins were arranged in the same plane with the ends of the hook,

it is evident that the fastening would be comparatively weakened. Said clampingshells are clearly illustrated in Fig. 2, and in this figure is shown the form of the hook-wire before it is inserted into the said ends.

Leather bands having their ends united, as herein described, provide efficient runningbands for spindles and similar light machinery and signal-cords for railway-cars much superior to those made of fibrous material, and for these purposes the within-described end-uniting devices are very strong and durable and do not form any inconvenient projection at the joint.

What I claim as my invention is- In a fasteningfor round leather bands, the combination, with the adjoining ends of the band, of a hook consisting of a length of wire having its ends bent and passed through the adjoining ends of the band and clinched therein, two metallic olau1ping-shellsofsemicircular cross-section applied over the ends of the band on opposite sides thereof, said shells inclosing said hook, and two metallic pins secured at their ends to the respective shells, one of said pins passing through each end of the band inside the hook and at right angles to the bent ends thereof, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE I-I. AVERY. Witnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, W. S. BELLows. 

